THE DIGNITY of Income and opportunity at the neighborhood level

 

L-R:  MARK CHAMBERS JR - 2ND DISTRICT and JONATHAN BROSTOFF 3RD DISTRICT

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State Assemblyman RYAN CLANCY

As a lifelong activist, organizer, and advocate, Ryan Clancy has consistently stood in defense of civil rights and social justice.

In high school, after organizing a peer-published student newspaper, he was represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, who saved him from expulsion and awarded him the Young Civil Libertarian of the Year. 

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After graduating from Beloit College with a degree in English and a secondary teaching certification, Clancy was accepted into the U.S. Peace Corps, where he assisted veteran English teachers on a remote island in the Philippines. 

Clancy went on to found the Progressive Restaurant and Activists of Wisconsin Network, which brings together restaurants and consumers to advocate for higher wages and better working conditions across the service industry.

As a Milwaukee County Supervisor, Ryan Clancy has continued to fight for community values, including accountability measures and moving $2.4 million in the 2022 budget out of things like a surveillance camera array and into priorities like pools, the South Shore Park Playground, our parks, employee benefits and human rights. 

He authored and passed the Right to Shelter and the Right to Counsel, which provides a lawyer to residents facing eviction, Paid Parental Leave for county employees, and has worked to restore dignity and more humane conditions to the County Jail and House of Corrections.

Clancy has a Master's degree in Negotiation, Conflict Resolution, and Peacebuilding. 

He lives with his wife Becky in Milwaukee's Bay View neighborhood and has five amazing, weird children.

RYAN CLANCY assumes the position held by JONATHAN BROSTOFF - Assemblyman District 19.

He switched to Alderman of the 3rd District in Milwaukee - unopposed.

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MORE background to come of Alderman MARK CHAMBERS JR. AND Alderman JONATHAN BROSTOFF

Statement of Acting AAG Nicholas McQuaid on DOJ Enforcement Efforts to C...

WE LOOK FORWARD TO THIS PUBLIC SERVANT TO ENSURE THAT OUR FEDERAL FUNDING, ESPECIALLY "AMERICAN RESCUE FUNDING" IS AN EXAMPLE OF ACCOUNTABILITY.

NOVEMBER 11, 2022 - Our Veterans' Salute

 

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

6:00pm ANNOUNCEMENT

1800 HOURS

WHOA! HATE, REVENGE and FAULTY judgment have gone too far, PART I

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.                Martin Luther King, Jr.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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                                                    TEARMAN SPENCER - City Attorney

We, the People ELECTED TEARMAN SPENCER with the mandated percentage results of 69% to 39%.

“As City Attorney, I will not sit and wait to take action or maintain the status quo. I am going to be proactive by developing policies to create better police-community relations, lower the risk of citizen injury and death, and reduce city payouts for police misconduct. The City Attorney needs to be a visible and accessible asset to every community in the City of Milwaukee.”

-Tearman Spencer

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Meet Mr. Law and Order for the City of Milwaukee

SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 2021

MILWAUKEE || 96.8 square miles | In the two-man race of Tearman Spencer and incumbent Grant Langley, Spencer resoundingly outpolled 18,700 votes.  The percentage results were 69% to 39%.

An upset for sure and a clear "mandate" by the people of the city of Milwaukee.  The large-scale voting and vote margin speaks to the change desired at city hall.

It is appropriate to note that private attorney Tearman Spencer is the 1st African American City Attorney of Milwaukee and is known to speak on behalf of the People with law and order for the city to thrive. 

Unfortunately, the NEW city attorney was elected during the BURST of the COVID-19 pandemic and caught the coronavirus as he took office.

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Additionally, the records reveal that Spencer inherited a high volume of cases of injuries from Langley's administration that is the burden of the city taxpayers - per city law - for high-profile and expensive suits related to the Milwaukee Police Department.

He also received a headwind of backlash from disgruntled staff that was unfair, misleading, unwarranted, and revengeful. 

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We, the People, "TRUST" HIM.

To be continued . . .

TIFFANY CROSS - The Cross Connection , Young, Gifted and Black

 

I love The Cross Connection. If MSNBC is dealing with issues of social justice, policing, criminal justice and of course, sports, Black folks are featured in every segment. But if the subject is Russia, Ukraine, the stock market, the economy or politics and diplomacy, you see very few Black contributors from Joe through Nicole. When I watch Tiffany on Saturday I get to see and hear from Blacks, Latinos, API and Indigenous folks who are experts in their fields with impeccable credentials that I never see anywhere else. 

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Tiffany D. Cross is the past host of MSNBC’s The Cross Connection airing Saturdays from 10A-12P EST. 

She is the author of Say It Louder: Black Voters, W8hite Narratives, and Saving Our Democracy (Amistad/HarperCollins) and most recently served as a Resident Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics (Spring 2020). 

Her broad experience across media, politics, and policy includes more than two decades of navigating newsrooms and campaigns while engaging different constituencies on the ground. She previously served as the DC Bureau Chief of BET News and the Liaison to the Obama Administration for BET Networks where she covered Capitol Hill, produced political specials, and oversaw the daily operations of the news department. 

Tiffany cut her teeth in media at CNN where she worked as an Associate Producer covering Capitol Hill for the network’s weekend show unit. She also previously served as a Field Producer for America’s Most Wanted and Discovery Communications.

No stranger to the campaign trail, Tiffany not only covered campaigns but worked on them as well. She has lent her expertise to numerous local, state, and federal candidates as well as issue campaigns across the country. 

Serving as a senior advisor to one of the country’s largest labor organizations, one of Tiffany’s many tentacles was organizing all communities of color on both a local and national level. Using her media background, Tiffany has helped shape the narrative around issues, individuals, and ideologies.

Leaving the campaign stump, Tiffany transitioned from the control room to the green room when she co-founded The Beat DC, a national platform intersecting politics, policy, business, media, and people of color. With a readership comprising influencers across the country, Tiffany led a team that made the fast-moving current affairs in a busy legislative climate digestible for the political connoisseur and novice alike. She quickly became a sought-after voice in the progressive discourse and is a frequent guest on MSNBC, CNN, and SiriusXM.

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Tiffany left at a young age and moved to Atlanta, Georgia. She attended Clark Atlanta University where she studied Mass Communications with an emphasis on radio, TV, and film. She currently lives in Washington, D.C.

The Cross Connection show was canceled by MSNBC on Friday, November 4, 2022.

WATCH TIFFANY SOAR!!!

Where are you Aycha Sawa Comptroller and your NEW TEAM?

 

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

AYCHA SAWA - COMPTROLLER

MILWAUKEE, WI || City of Milwaukee Comptroller's Office owes the citizenry of Milwaukee - heirs/taxpayers/stakeholders - she took the Oath for due diligence as a Charter Officer.  We, the People elected a Comptroller to help ensure that our books are in the right order and we have a CPA traffic cop on staff every day to see that the mayor and legislators - the common council have funds appropriate and available for use in our coffers. To monitor/honor the statutes. To help GROW our assets for economic development and quality of life.

Milwaukee is in a state of disarray.  The executive branch Report Card is dismal due to the poor performance of Tom Barrett, past mayor.

Tom Barrett, selfishly participated in running from Milwaukee by seeking/receiving an ambassadorship to Luxembourg in late 2021.  The abruptness put the city in "unfinished business".

The leadership was then left to an "Acting Mayor" - Cavalier Johnson - who doubled as the Common Council President until April 5, 2022, when he became the first elected African American to become mayor of the city of Milwaukee.

Cavalier Johnson came into the office of mayor and quickly made some abrupt changes with Nik Kovac Alderman leaving District 3 to become the City of Milwaukee Budget Director.

Johnson followed the appointment of Kovac with the appointment of Ashanti Hamilton District 1 to head the Office of Violence Prevention.

Due to misbehavior in office, Alderwoman Chantia Lewis, District 9 was removed from office.  Therefore, we presently have Districts 1, 2, 3, and 9 vacant until November 8, 2022.  

This week, Alderwoman Nikiya Dodd, District 5 announced that she was stepping down during the month of November 2022.  That means the City of Milwaukee will have had 5 major injuries to our infrastructure of the Common Council. The drastic position changes opened a learning curve for some time to come.

We, the People are depending on Aycha Sawa, Comptroller to provide us with knowledge for stability in our 2023 budget.

This means that she has to be on her toes with her team.

Who is BILL CHRISTIANSON?  What happened to  JOSHUA BENSON? 

AYCHA SAWA

Aycha Sawa has come behind Martin Matson as the Comptroller while serving during Matson's term as Deputy Comptroller for 3 years.

Aycha came in with a heavy endorsement of likeability from the east side voters and a cross-section of Caucasians of Milwaukee.

Her opponent was NOT up-to-snuff and should have been defeated as he was.

It is coming the time in 2 years for re-election and/or election of a comptroller.

What say you Aycha Sawa is why my office keeps calling on your accountability and transparency for supporting your oath and Master Charter.

2023 Amended Budget

We are in the middle of the mess-up of Cavalier Johnson, mayor, Jose G. Perez, Common Council President, Marina Dimitrijevic chair Finance and Personnel, Milele Coggs District 6, Michael Murphy District 10, Khalif Rainey District 7, Russell Stamper District 15, Bob Bauman District 4, Scott Spiker District 13, JoCasta Zamarripa District 8, Mark Borkowski District 11, and Nikiya Dodd District 5.

The Amended budget sent forward by the common council on November 4, 2022, has a stamp or two of Aycha Sawa on it.  In fact, it starts with the Comptroller here.

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Below are questions we need to be answered by Comptroller Aycha Sawa?  We also need a message from our Comptroller to address the long list of changes here.

WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE COMPTROLLER?

On October 27-28, 2022, BUDGET AMENDMENT DAY was scheduled.  What does that mean for African Americans, other People of Color, and the Work Challenged Milwaukeeans?

"We ask that Comptroller Aycha Sawa step forward with her due diligence going forward of how her office will INFORM taxpayers/the heirs. Give us the facts of how large sums of federal funds have been spent".

What recommendations have come from the Comptroller's office to assist the hundreds of thousands of Milwaukeeans who are left marred in poverty, evictions, homelessness, lack of health care efficacy, COVID, and viruses?  What do we have for funding for eviction?  What has been done to eradicate lead in water and soil? What is recommended for incarceration - young and adult?  What has been presented to the People for the giant expenditures of the police department?  What is the solution to the OFFICE OF VIOLENCE PREVENTION/OVP?

What funds are given to the Medical College of WI and Greater Milwaukee Foundation for the OVP?

What is invested in the city support of parents in Milwaukee Public Schools?  

What rules and regulations are in place to show how the core constituents are entered in the consent of the resident?

November 1

What has the Comptroller prepared to represent to the resident of their authority in the agreement with the 2023 city budget for Milwaukee, i.e., the executive branch?

November 1, 2022, signifies the date of the vote of the common council.  What should we, the People, have for the common council and mayor Comptroller Sawa?

What say you SHARON ROBINSON, DOA city of Milwaukee

Mayor, Council At Odds Over How To Prepare For Fiscal Cliff

But there is unanimous agreement that city faces a looming crisis. 

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“I think we forget how many new people [are involved],” said Dimitrijevic in an interview. Johnson as mayor, Kovac as budget director, Perez as council president, and Dimitrijevic as finance committee chair are all going through their first budget cycle in their new roles. “We put our best foot forward and had a pretty engaged process.” She said a second public hearing, held as a hybrid in-person-virtual event, was informative, but that there still wasn’t a feeling of sufficient community engagement.

“Cutting life-saving services while having the means to preserve them just feels irresponsible,” said Common Council President Jose G. Perez to the Finance & Personnel Committee Thursday morning. “Many of us, in communication with one another, didn’t feel that the community was ready for drastic cuts to libraries and services across the city.”

Perez said he didn’t think former Mayor Tom Barrett was interested in engaging the public on the looming need to cut services. He said he’s committed to discussing the issue with residents and with state legislators. The first-time council president said he thought business leaders needed to better understand the issue, including that the city has growing expenses but can’t raise revenue.

“We do need more time,” said finance committee chair Alderwoman Marina Dimitrijevic. “We do want to have the time to communicate with our constituents the changes that lie ahead.”

The longest-serving council member isn’t backing his colleagues’ proposal, but he is in agreement about the severity of the situation.

 

Welcome to the Department of Administration

SHARON ROBINSON

The Department of Administration (DOA) is responsible for many of the centralized functions of the City of Milwaukee. DOA works to make Milwaukee one of the nation's most attractive cities in which to live, work and do business by:

• Enhancing the ability of city agencies to provide high quality, valued services at what cost citizens' can afford;
• Developing and recommending policies that protect the city's fiscal foundation; and
• Influencing state and federal policies that affect the city's ability to thrive.

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The City of Milwaukee has been allocated approximately $394.2 million in direct ARPA assistance. It is the city’s goal to use the funds to enable the city and community to recover from the pandemic, address the needs of residents, families, and neighborhoods hardest hit by the pandemic, and put our city on a path to a strong, inclusive and equitable recovery.

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                                                 NIK KOVAC - Budget Manager

Kovac said Johnson supported reversing the temporary closure of the King branch and eliminating the cut to one of the four other branches by using approximately $600,000 in savings from a previously unanticipated delay in starting a police recruiting class and needing to make a smaller payment than anticipated to the Milwaukee Area Domestic Animal Control Commission (MADACC). “Beyond that, we feel is irresponsible,” said Kovac. 

But the use of the word “irresponsible” resulted in pushback from Ald. Milele A. Coggs and several others. “I think that is an unnecessary depiction of actions being taken,” said the alderwoman.

Kovac, a former council member, said that restoring the cuts could make it more difficult to get community engagement on the city’s looming issues. “We all know hypothetical conversations have empty rooms,” said the budget director.

                                    BUDGET AMENDMENT DAY

The heirs/taxpayers/stakeholders deserve a blow-by-blow assessment of the Administration budget in "layman's terms" of how their money has been spent and will be spent - $1.7 billion 2023 budget. 

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The executive and legislative branches have failed the heirs/taxpayers/stakeholders o the city of Milwaukee - 96.8 square miles. The lock-step "this-n-that" charter officers must be put in check for this budget changeover. 

 

What did Nik Kovak become Budget Director for?

What is so significant that he brings to the table of budget impact for African Americans, other People of Color, and Work Challenged Milwaukeeans?  It looks like he is bringing the tired and disrespectful leadership of Tom Barrett" - exploiter.

The majority population of Milwaukee - even though we have everybody and their Caucasian mama power-grabbing our coffers of massive resources.

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Nik Kovac is a member of Sharon Robinson's DOA team.

We have not heard anything impressive from Kovac.

Ashanti Hamilton's quick jump is another, for what?  What does he bring to the party but chaos?

City Hall is just a mess-up.

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Did he have anything to do with pushing Dennis Yaccarino to retirement?

TECHNOLOGY

Where is the push for Broadband?

4-5G employment in Milwaukee for African Americans, other People of Color, and the Work Challenged?

We need an IMPACT STATEMENT from DOA.  We have a new person in the mayor's office.

What's the status of the 2006 internet technology placed in Milwaukee by Tom Barrett and DOA - Sharon Robinson?

It's time for our Comptroller, Aycha Sawa

"As you will see, we are tightly constrained by limited revenue," Johnson said. "In fact, 'constrained' is not the right word. We are hamstrung – forced to cut long-established services because we do not have the money we need. Simply put, our costs are climbing, and our revenue is flat."

Cavalier Johnson, mayor, City of Milwaukee

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2022

MILWAUKEE, WI || Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC/MPA-LLC is a public policy firm with a specific interest in the Enduring Concentrated Poverty, quality of life, and economic development of African Americans, other People of Color, and the Work Challenged heirs/stakeholders/taxpayers of the city of Milwaukee in 96.8 square miles.

The city of Milwaukee experienced a major transition in leadership of the executive branch - the election of the mayor on April 5, 2022.

The 2023 city of Milwaukee annual budget is the first for the new mayor - CAVALIER JOHNSON.

                                             Tom Barrett
Background

      Cavalier Johnson

The election of Cavalier Johnson, mayor, on April 5, 2022, demands an audit of files - Tom Barrett to Cavalier Johnson files, American Rescue funds, CARES, HUD, and infrastructure funds for the People.

Barrett has a questionable record of the use of federal funds related to public transportation, HOP-hospitality riding for tourism, and BRT-Bus Rapid Transit East/West Milwaukee that exclude Milwaukeeans with public transportation problems that are denied employment. 

The Comptroller's office is dedicated to putting the City of Milwaukee's residents first.

The Comptroller is the City's chief financial officer and serves a four-year term. Under State statute and City charter, Sawa is empowered to administer the City's financial affairs. Her Office exercises fiscal control over the activities of approximately 40 City departments and agencies. 

As City Comptroller, Sawa serves on the Board of Directors for the Wisconsin Center District. She is a member of the City's Deferred Compensation Board and the Secretary to the Public Debt Commission, and a member of the Annuity and Pension Board.

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Comptroller Sawa is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Internal Auditor. As such, she is professionally committed to, and thus will lead the Comptroller's office, with a code of ethics that promises to transcend political will; standards that require integrity, independence, and accuracy. 

The Comptroller's office is dedicated to putting the City of Milwaukee's residents first. 

". . . the budget of the Milwaukee Police Department is close to the city's entire property tax levy," said Johnson. $305 million of the $311 million property tax levy is budgeted for police. 

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WHAT TO EXPECT FROM THE COMPTROLLER?

On October 27-28, 2022, BUDGET AMENDMENT DAY was scheduled.  What does that mean for African Americans, other People of Color, and the Work Challenged Milwaukeeans?

"We ask that Comptroller Aycha Sawa step forward with her due diligence going forward of how her office will INFORM taxpayers/the heirs. Give us the facts of how large sums of federal funds have been spent".

What recommendations have come from the Comptroller's office to assist the hundreds of thousands of Milwaukeeans who are left marred in poverty, evictions, homelessness, lack of health care efficacy, COVID, and viruses?  What do we have for funding for eviction?  What has been done to eradicate lead in water and soil? What is recommended for incarceration - young and adult?  What has been presented to the People for the giant expenditures of the police department?  What is the solution to the OFFICE OF VIOLENCE PREVENTION/OVP?

What funds are given to the Medical College of WI and Greater Milwaukee Foundation for the OVP?

What is invested in the city support of parents in Milwaukee Public Schools?  

What rules and regulations are in place to show how the core constituents are entered in the consent of the resident?

November 1

What has the Comptroller prepared to represent to the resident of their authority in the agreement with the 2023 city budget for Milwaukee, i.e., the executive branch?

November 1, 2022, signifies the date of the vote of the common council.  What should we, the People, have for the common council and mayor Comptroller Sawa?